Upcoming Audi e-tron GT to rival Tesla Model S

Greg Santos |Saturday, March 17, 2018

Audi hints E Tron GT will be positioned at top of lineup

In addition to the e-tron GT, Audi also revealed that the production e-tron quattro crossover SUV will debut later this year in Europe priced from €80,000. Audi now builds the R8 supercar at the site, which opened in 2014.

Rupert Stadler with the Audi e-tron prototype. The all-electric machine is destined to form a "sporty spearhead" for the marque's e-tron plug-in vehicle range and could point to a restructuring at the top of the Audi Sport performance auto line-up.

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While the e-tron GT is set to be based on the Porsche developed J1 platform, the e-tron quattro SUV uses an Audi developed electric vehicle architecture known internally as C-BEV - underpinnings that are also planned to be used by the production version of the e-tron Sportback. "Beforehand, in 2018 and 2019, the e-Tron and Mission E production models will be the first electric models of the two premium brands to be launched", the announcement read.

Volkswagen's VOWG_p.DE main profit engine developed the bigger 3.0 litre V6 diesel engines used in about 80,000 VW, Audi and Porsche models that in 2015 were found to have been equipped with illicit software and to exceed US emissions limits.

The new machine - revealed by Autocar two years ago - was announced during the company's annual press conference as one of the 20 electrified models that will feature in its line-up by 2025. In a media communication, Audi indicated that the sub-brand is planning to undergo a large business transformation over the next several months, increasing its operating and development budgets for new ventures that are just on the horizon.

Audi has picked the small plant, with a staff of 2,700 people, as a lead factory for electric mobility within the parent Volkswagen group.

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